Project Engineer
Hilti
Total years of experience :11 years, 2 Months
• Maximise the sales potential of Hilti products and services through specification with selected customer groups, exploiting the sales opportunities in a defined list of key regional projects.
• Work pro-actively to penetrate a defined group of key designers, principally consulting engineers, to gain specifications through providing a value engineering service.
• Provide technical support and training to the company’s personnel and customers, to ensure the delivery of a high quality engineering support service at all times.
• Carry out all quality control and risk avoidance duties as required in a timely and professional manner, to maintain the integrity of the company.
• Worked as a site manager for a small construction project based in Harrow - London.
• Supervised the demolition of the existing ground floor, foundations and excavated 3m to build a new basement.
• Duties included creating a method and risk assessments, programme of work, inducting the workers and visitors on health and safety aspects, preparing tool box talks, setting out and managing construction works.
Before commencing the site job explained above:
• I started as an assistant engineer working as a member of a team with the principal engineer and a surveyor on both land and in built surveying and setting out.
• Developed knowledge in using a Leica total station, GPS and prism at the project area in order to provide drawing details of the outcome to the client.
• Worked on several projects ranging from setting out fields in which solar panels where to be installed, positioning points at construction sites where piles were to be bored and constructed to surveying houses ready for renovation.
• Carrying out full range of engineer duties on a number of small scale projects including:
- Renovation of a house into five flats
- Building a new extension to a house
- Demolition of a two storey building and constructing a new one
- Prepared to construct a new four storey building.
• Gaining a good knowledge of building materials, supervision of labour and how to overcome challenges faced throughout the projects.
Modules include: Energy Technologies: Current Issues and Future Directions, Fundamental Concepts in Safety Engineering, Finding Oil: Geosciences in Exploration and Production, Project Management, Oil and Gas Chemistry, Facilities Engineering, Well and Reservoir Engineering and Flow Assurance. Knowledge gained: Reservoir modelling, geochemistry, basin analysis, exploration processes, hydrocarbon indicators and 3D/4D modelling. I have gained an extensive overview of the oil and gas sector. A general overview of the different energy sectors from Oil and Gas, Coal, Nuclear and Renewable and how they contribute towards the world demand for energy. Concepts in Safety Engineering and reliability of pumps, valves, subsea systems...etc and how to ensure providing safe equipments and environment of work by eliminating or at least reducing greatly and factor of failure that may lead to risk of injury or death. The study of earth Geology, reading contour maps and identifying areas where oil and gas may exist abundance and provide economic reason for exploration and production. Introduction in project management learning about managing teams, framing, risk, option generation, project appraisal, scheduling, estimating and project control. Covered a range of subjects from basic chemistry, scaling problems and use of different chemicals that help in stopping their formation. As well as an overview over Hydrate formation, slugging, wax build up, corrosion and erosion, asphaltene deposition and how to disperse these in order to keep the flow smoothly in pipes. As well as learning about oil refinery by studying distillation towers, cracking/coking processes, hydroprocessing and alkylation. Covered topics in Facilities Engineering such as Processing and utilising three phase separators to separate oil, gas and water before processing. Transportation using pipelines, pumps, compressors and storage. Other topics including measurement, control, integrity management and learning about offshore rigs such as fixed platforms, compliant tower, semi-submersibles and SPAR. Extensive knowledge in reservoir engineering covering topics in Reservoir rock and fluid properties, Steady and Unsteady fluid flow in porous media, Material balance in reservoir engineering. As well as well engineering gaining general understanding of drill bits, directional drilling, casing design, cementing, well control, well evaluation and completion. I enjoyed studying Flow Assurance in which I learned about single and multiphase flow, hydrocarbons properties, heat transfer, hydrates and erosion. MSc dissertation: Key Drivers To Maximise Oil and Gas Production from UK Continental Shelf Fields.
Modules included: Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Engineering Analysis, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Quantum solid mechanics, Structural design studies, Soil Mechanics and Water Engineering.